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p.2 #1 · Don't download new firefox

brillantly put butch. i agree that it's not as OT as one would think and if you see firefox as a tool we use - and he could give the heads up to his photog friends... it's worthwhile.

besides.. if it's not of interest to you move along. i didn't care for.. or need to participate in the cough supressant conversation so I just skipped it instead of trying to police it..... HA

there's value in the journey as Butch has pointed out.... maybe we'll all learn something along the way...

like in the pocketwizard thread that some have suggested be moved to the lighting forum ... someone learned that a PW can fire some old school POS flash with the right synch cable... that's worth while!

- travis

Edited on Aug 28, 2008 at 07:03 PM

Aug 28, 2008 at 07:01 PM

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p.2 #2 · Don't download new firefox

Works fine for me!

Aug 28, 2008 at 07:09 PM

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p.2 #3 · Don't download new firefox

weeums wrote:
and he could give the heads up to his photog friends... it's worthwhile.

But the OP did not put any flesh on the bones of his comments .. just a bare & bald statement not to use the newest version of FF.

Now if he had to say WHY then his comments may have some merit.

As they stand they are worthless unless you know the OP personally and trust his judgment on these things.

Edited on Aug 28, 2008 at 07:21 PM

Aug 28, 2008 at 07:11 PM

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p.2 #4 · Don't download new firefox

It messes up for me in the FM forums. If you go to the mail forum page and then hold CTRL and click one of the subforums (to open in a new tab), it will open in a new tab AND load in the current tab.

If you don't like it though... just CTRL + F4 and your problems will disappear.

Aug 28, 2008 at 07:34 PM

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p.2 #5 · Don't download new firefox

weeums wrote:
brillantly put butch. i agree that it's not as OT as one would think and if you see firefox as a tool we use - and he could give the heads up to his photog friends... it's worthwhile.

besides.. if it's not of interest to you move along. i didn't care for.. or need to participate in the cough supressant conversation so I just skipped it instead of trying to police it..... HA

there's value in the journey as Butch has pointed out.... maybe we'll all learn something along the way...

like in the pocketwizard thread that some have suggested be moved to the lighting forum ... someone learned that a PW can fire some old school POS flash with the right synch cable... that's worth while!

- travis

Travis,

Stop using your camera. It sucks.

I hope I assisted you in some way.

Peace,
Cordell

Aug 28, 2008 at 07:36 PM

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p.2 #6 · Don't download new firefox

lol@this thread. I love how he just said this one little thing and never came back. Not to mention this thread having nothing to do witht his forum.

Aug 28, 2008 at 07:38 PM

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p.2 #7 · Don't download new firefox

brianripley wrote:
It messes up for me in the FM forums. If you go to the mail forum page and then hold CTRL and click one of the subforums (to open in a new tab), it will open in a new tab AND load in the current tab.

If you don't like it though... just CTRL + F4 and your problems will disappear.

Well at least someone coughed up a reason .. but I've never done that particular action here so it really does not affect me.

Aug 28, 2008 at 07:46 PM

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p.2 #8 · Don't download new firefox

FF3 gives me fits when I log into hotmail, directs me to a page saying I need to upgrade to IE or FF haha

Otherwise no major issues, I don't like how the tabs are fixed width-- when I have 10 or so open, I have to use that stupid scroll arrow. Otherwise it's great. I skipped FF2 altogether, upgraded from ver 1.

Aug 28, 2008 at 07:46 PM

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p.2 #9 · Don't download new firefox

Now you tell me, so what's wrong?

Aug 28, 2008 at 08:16 PM

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p.2 #10 · Don't download new firefox

Does anyone know, are most of the add-ons updated for FF3? I use Opanda EXIF and Adblock plus.

Aug 28, 2008 at 08:33 PM

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p.2 #11 · Don't download new firefox

Andrew Welsh wrote:
FF3 gives me fits when I log into hotmail, directs me to a page saying I need to upgrade to IE or FF haha

Otherwise no major issues, I don't like how the tabs are fixed width-- when I have 10 or so open, I have to use that stupid scroll arrow. Otherwise it's great. I skipped FF2 altogether, upgraded from ver 1.
Hotmail did the same thing to me yesterday, with FF 2 ! It has never done that before.

Aug 28, 2008 at 08:34 PM

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p.2 #12 · Don't download new firefox

Mike Mahoney wrote:
(SNIP)
Now if he offered more specifics about the supposed problem(s) then we may have something worth reading and checking into ourselves.

As it stands his comment is just as stupid as saying "don't drive a Honda".

Or like just saying "don't shoot for Bella" with no backup reasons.

John

Aug 28, 2008 at 08:47 PM

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p.2 #13 · Don't download new firefox

Andrew Welsh wrote:
Otherwise no major issues, I don't like how the tabs are fixed width-- when I have 10 or so open, I have to use that stupid scroll arrow. Otherwise it's great. I skipped FF2 altogether, upgraded from ver 1.

- Open Firexfox and type about:config in the Address Bar.

Click to say you will be careful when it warns" Here be dragons" !

- In the Filter Bar type browser.tabs.tabMinWidth (this will display just the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth parameter)

- Double click on browser.tabs.tabMinWidth and in the Enter integer value pop up window, change the number (Value) to anything under 40. Click OK to set the new Value. Try say 20

Now when you surf the Internet and open many tabs, you will have a lot more tabs showing then when the width of the value was set at 100.

Now when you surf the Internet and open many tabs, you will have a lot more tabs showing then when the width of the value was set at 100.

Edited on Aug 28, 2008 at 09:17 PM

Aug 28, 2008 at 09:15 PM

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p.2 #14 · Don't download new firefox

ohtoberich wrote:
Yep OT. I prefer Firefox 3 to the older version; finally, a color managed browser for Windows!

How to turn on color management

Safari for PC

? Out months before FF3.

Edited on Aug 28, 2008 at 10:11 PM

Aug 28, 2008 at 10:11 PM

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p.2 #15 · Don't download new firefox

hotrod4x5 wrote:
Does anyone know, are most of the add-ons updated for FF3? I use Opanda EXIF and Adblock plus.

I have no problem with them. You should also get PicLens, one of the best picture viewers EVAR!

It's now known as cooliris

Edited by monochrome on Aug 28, 2008 at 05:14 PM GMT

Edited on Aug 28, 2008 at 10:14 PM

Aug 28, 2008 at 10:12 PM

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p.2 #16 · Don't download new firefox

monochrome wrote:
ohtoberich wrote:
Yep OT. I prefer Firefox 3 to the older version; finally, a color managed browser for Windows!

How to turn on color management

Safari for PC

? Out months before FF3.

but is not fully capable in this regard.

Aug 28, 2008 at 10:13 PM

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p.2 #17 · Don't download new firefox

I did have a problem with FF3 where it would not upload my images from Canon cameras into my Smugmug account. My scanned images from the Contax G2 were fine.

I opened a ticket with Momzilla and she said to switch to the Nikon system instead.

Edited on Aug 28, 2008 at 10:33 PM

Aug 28, 2008 at 10:33 PM

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p.2 #18 · Don't download new firefox

paulhodson wrote:
monochrome wrote:
ohtoberich wrote:
Yep OT. I prefer Firefox 3 to the older version; finally, a color managed browser for Windows!

How to turn on color management

Safari for PC

Aug 28, 2008 at 11:26 PM

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p.2 #19 · Don't download new firefox

Marcus Watts wrote:
Don't download new firefox

Are you a hacker or something?

FF 3.0.1 protects better against malware, is faster, has better rendering, less buggy...

(and the new coming FF 3.1 will be even much faster)

Aug 29, 2008 at 03:00 AM

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p.2 #20 · Don't download new firefox

monochrome wrote:
paulhodson wrote:
monochrome wrote:
ohtoberich wrote:
Yep OT. I prefer Firefox 3 to the older version; finally, a color managed browser for Windows!

How to turn on color management

Safari for PC

? Out months before FF3.

but is not fully capable in this regard.

It's color management is on by default. They knew from the start it should be. Why put it as being able to be turned on FF or not at all IE?

With a wide gamut monitor only Firefox 3 handles images without an embedded profile reasonably well. Safari does not.

AFAIK the reason that you can turn off color management in Firefox 3 is that if it is not important to you (which for normal web browsing for non image purposes it probably is not) then it is slightly faster with it turned off.

Edited on Aug 29, 2008 at 05:48 AM

Aug 29, 2008 at 05:46 AM

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p.2 #21 · Don't download new firefox

Everything with FF3 looks good except that the 'FxIF' extension does not work with it. The extension was a good tool (at least for me) that displayed the exif info neatly within the properties pane of a image (opened by right mouse click -> Properties). Now I have the 'Exif Viewer' installed which does the same but in a more cluttered way.

Aug 30, 2008 at 04:51 AM

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p.2 #22 · Don't download new firefox

Try Opanda IExif 2.3 and see if you prefer that.

Aug 30, 2008 at 06:04 AM

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p.2 #23 · Don't download new firefox

This appeared on my PC with FF3.01, wasn't a problem in 3.0. Looks like a new bug, but no show stopper for me - "right-click, open in new tab" is my workaround.

Aug 30, 2008 at 06:39 PM

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p.2 #24 · Don't download new firefox

I love FireFox, especially the new release 3. Best zoom ability and security outta there. But it is a memory hog and not very friendly with flash components in pages. Easily sucks up more than 1G memory for just a couple of tabs. And takes tons of processing capacity with dealing with certain flashes. I got 4G memory with my lappy so memory is not a problem. But a 2G Duo Core won't work for some sites then I shift to IE or Safari.

Aug 30, 2008 at 08:52 PM

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p.2 #25 · Don't download new firefox

xealot wrote:
I love FireFox, especially the new release 3. Best zoom ability and security outta there. But it is a memory hog and not very friendly with flash components in pages. Easily sucks up more than 1G memory for just a couple of tabs. And takes tons of processing capacity with dealing with certain flashes. I got 4G memory with my lappy so memory is not a problem. But a 2G Duo Core won't work for some sites then I shift to IE or Safari.
Even with 20-30 tabs open (checking FM posts), it rarely uses more then 64MB on my PC ...

Aug 30, 2008 at 09:06 PM


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